Word: confrontations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photographer's vise so he would not stray from the imperfect microphone) in 1922. A year later he was current-eventing steadily over WEAF. His fan mail included letters from happy housewives: at last they had an easily assimilated news and opinion source with which to confront their cocksure husbands. "Please tell me," they begged, "is he right, or are you?" Kaltenborn is certain that radio began the political education of women...
...main purpose in writing this book has not been to present an argument for religious faith. . . . I have tried in writing, as in personal counseling, to begin with people as I have found them, and to confront religion only when, following the trail of their problems and needs, I ran headlong into it. Nevertheless, one does run headlong into...
Fully realizing that a successful relationship between labor and management is going to be the first essential in dealing with the difficulties that will confront the nation after the war, fourteen labor union leaders, selected by their unions, and representing a variety of trades, attended the first classes of the nine months course in the early morning of last September 30. They came directly from the factories and the shops, leaving their jobs as mechanics, glaziers, electricians and clothing workers. One of them held a degree of Master of Law, another had quit school...
...finest thing about this picture is that its characters are profoundly real all the way through. The problems they had to meet and the issues they had to face are very much like the ones which now confront...
Exhibited in the marble halls of the Commerce Building were more than a thousand specimens of advertising keyed to the war-magazine and newspaper pages, car cards and posters designed to confront the individual with the struggle in terms of war bonds, scrap drives and the conservation of U.S. resources...